Borderline leprosy (n=09)###05 (55.5%)###04 (44.5%)
In literature it was stated that
borderline leprosy, especially borderline tuberculoid type, is commonest sites type of leprosy seen.
In some cases of borderline tuberculoid leprosy when the disease is regressing the clinical classification is of
borderline leprosy but histopathological classification becomes indeterminate.18 This disparity was seen in one of our case which was indeterminate leprosy on histopathology but clinically was of
borderline leprosy.
Disabilities were more common among males,
borderline leprosy cases and new cases.
Concomittent pulmonary tuberculosis and
borderline leprosy with type-II lepra reaction in single patient.
Leprosy may be divided into four types: indeterminate, tuberculoid type,
borderline leprosy and lepromatous leprosy.
Patient 1 was a 70 year old male with a past history of
borderline leprosy treated in 2000 with multibacillary multidrug therapy (MD MBT).
A 40 year-old man was treated in a basic health unit in the peripheral region of Rio de Janeiro city with MB-MDT 12 months for
borderline leprosy in 2006.
These findings were consistent with a histological diagnosis of
borderline leprosy in Type 1 reaction7 and were in concordance with the ultrasound findings.